Cognitive psych Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PS260: Cognitive Psychology Exam, Answered-Cognitive Psychology - the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating Two key ideas of the cognitive revolution - 1. Science of psychology CANNOT study the mental world directly 2. Psychology MUST study the mental world if it wants to understand behaviour Important points of definitions of cognitive psychology - - includes REPRESENTATIONS - knowledge that we already have in memo...

A summary for the Cognitive Psychology exam. Based on the required reading material/articles. Can also be used as notes for preparation for each individual problem.

PS260 TEST BANKS: Cognitive Psychology, Answered-1. Which of the following topics is NOT commonly studied within cognitive psychology? ANS: A DIF: Easy REF: The Scope of Cognitive Psychology OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Understanding 2. Cognitive processes are NOT necessary for which daily activity? ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: The Scope of Cognitive Psychology OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Applying 3. Alyssa wants to be a psychologist but is unsure which topic within psychology most interests her. Which of t...

the key structural components of neurons are (Ans- cell body, dendrites, axon Paul Broca's and Carl Wernicke's research provided early evidence for what? (Ans- localization of function a synapse is (Ans- space between neurons action potentials occur in the (Ans- axon When recording from a single neuron, stimulus intensity is represented in a single neuron by the (Ans- firing rate of the action potentials. Which of the following statements best describes how neurons com...

AU PSYC 355 Cognitive Psychology Test Bank For Cognition 10th Edition Thomas A Farmer Margaret W Matlin from chapter 1- 10 Athabasca University

Test Bank for Cognitive Psychology 3rd Edition by E. Bruce Goldstein, Johanna C. van Hooff Chapter1-13

General Knowledge Chapter 8 Episodic memory : Contains information about events that hapenned to us, implies a personal experience. Semantic Memory : Organized knowledge about the world. Does not specify how we acquired that information. Lexical, Language Knowledge Category : Set of objects that belong together Concept : Mental representation of a category Situated Cognition Approach : We make use of information in the immediate environment or situation. Our knowledge depends on the co...

cognitive psychology (Ans- the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind Mind (Ans- 1) creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning 2) a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals Cognition (Ans- the mental processes such as perception, attention, memory, etc. reaction time (Ans- how long it takes to respond...

Summary of slides for course Cognitive Psychology and its Applications